Police Captain Ed. K. Lee with an armload of the birch and maple nightsticks

Creator

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Identifier

20037917

Description

Police Captain Ed. K. Lee, wearing street clothes, is holding an armload of the birch and maple nightsticks. The sticks resemble shillelagh and are one and one-fourth inches in diameter and 24 inches long. The city's budget did not furnish the sticks and had to be funded by the officers. Patrolman Tom Brown turned down the sticks from raw lumber. Captain Lee distributed the sticks to members of his platoon. Beat patrolmen were ordered this week to start carrying the nightsticks again after six years without them. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, November 2, 1941.

Archival Date

1941-11-01

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-658

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Lee, Ed K. (Cpt.); Shillelagh; Police; Nightsticks; Law enforcement; Brown, Tom